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The project hasn't been worked on in over a year also it isn't the language that is much different but the tools. Are you going to write grep on windows? If not
by jtwebman 10y ago
The project hasn't been worked on in over a year also it isn't the language that is much different but the tools. Are you going to write grep on windows? If not the language really doesn't matter.
- preordained 10y agoAgree, you have to be careful these days not to bet on a dead horse. Or healthy and promising initially, but swiftly dead. I don't know that I need grep on windows or other powerful nix tools to find value in this. I'm not going to get cross-platform powerful scripts, but I need some simple batch file on windows to something, and god forbid I need to loop or increment or something, I'd probably rather use Jim's home brew language than batch...cuz it's that painful.
- alkonaut 10y agoIf the language has a string search command then it can implement its own, or it can delegate to grep on Linux and Findstr on Windows. Obviously in both cases it can't cover all that grep can do, but that likely isn't in scope. All I'd want is a tool that lets me maintain one build script for example.